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Thanks to Disney, we might think of fairytales in terms of princesses and cuddly animal sidekicks, but the original stories are much more scary, deadly, and, well, Dark. Don’t go in the woods, children. A time-traveling creature might eat you.

Way back in March, Netflix released the first teaser for a new show called Dark. Produced in Germany, we noted that its setting and tone made it look a little like Stranger Things. Well, a new trailer backs up that claim but gets much much, well, darker.

“A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers. Their search for a culprit unearths a small town’s sins and secrets.” No, it’s not the description of Stranger Things. It’s actually the plot of a new Netflix original series called Dark and while the two sound very similar, but that’s where the…

The music video for Lorn’s song Anvil doubles as a short animation about the future where the year is 2100 and overpopulation is dealt with a mandatory postmortem social network. That is, a social network where people are forced to plug in and die. Yeah, it’s a wee bit dark.

Disney movies almost always have happy endings but in order to get to the living happily ever after part, some pretty dark things usually have to happen. But they’re not as dark as the original stories the movies are based on. Those are basically horrific tales of torture that have been cleverly repurposed to…

Today most people do not get enough sleep. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called insufficient sleep an epidemic. While we are finally paying attention to the importance of sleep, the need for dark is still mostly ignored.

We live in a dull world, in which remarkable camera sensors and clever AI can balance exposure perfectly every time. But what is perfect, anyway? These 22 dark entries from this week's Shooting Challenge ask just that.

The creators of this Shelved—director James Cunningham and eleven visual effects students at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand—say their short film a homage to movies like Clerks, Mallrats, Slacker, and Dazed and Confused. After watching these two robotic losers in action, I can see why.

Michael Stevens explains why darkness moves faster than light in this new episode of Vsauce. I usually find these explainers interesting because they delve not only into multiple science disciplines but often they touch philosophical questions too. This one really blew my mind.

Anyone with a smartphone knows how impossible it is to take pictures in the dark. At best you get a picture that looks like a pile of dark to darker grains of sand. Researchers, however, have come up with a better way. They've been able to take 'ultra sharp images' with little to no light. Basically, it's creating…

What begins as a seemingly cheesy commercial for the Central Institute of Technology in Australia quickly devolves into a morass of extremely dark silliness. But yes, it's actually a real ad for a real school. Very creative, twisted, and funny. [Henry and Aaron via Reddit]

These USB ghosts are retro-tastically cute, illuminating and completely unlicensed, which is probably why I have the sneaking suspicion lawyers, somewhere, have already fired up whatever software they use to create legal docs.

Transformers: Dark of the Moonmay not have been our huckleberry, but the film's concept artists did an exemplary job drafting legion upon legion of stab-happy robots. For your perusal, here's some of film's finest artwork.

Now we know the true cost of Batman's justice: A Missouri man has been sentenced to two years in prison for illegally recording The Dark Knight in a movie theater and going on to sell it as bootleg DVDs.